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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 13
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Abijah reigns in Judah—He defeats Jeroboam and the armies of Israel—The Lord struck Jeroboam, and he died.
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Now</span> in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
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He reigned three years in Jerusalem.  His mother’s name also <i>was</i> Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.  And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
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And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, <i>even</i> four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, <i>being</i> mighty men of valour.
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&#182; And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which <i>is</i> in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
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Ought ye not to know that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, <i>even</i> to him and to his sons by a <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/13/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 18: 19; 3 Ne. 12: 13.">covenant</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/13/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Salt.">salt</a>?
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Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
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And there are gathered unto him vain men, the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/13/7a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB sons of worthlessness; scoundrels.">children</a> of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
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And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> in the hand of the sons of David; and ye <i>be</i> a great multitude, and <i>there are</i> with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
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Have ye not <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/13/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 11: 14; Alma 10: 23.">cast</a> out the priests of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of <i>other</i> lands?  so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/13/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 29: 1 (1-6).">bullock</a> and seven rams, <i>the same</i> may be a priest of <i>them that are</i> no gods.
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But as for us, the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>are</i> the sons of Aaron, and the Levites <i>wait</i> upon <i>their</i> business:
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And they burn unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also <i>set they in order</i> upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God; but ye have forsaken him.
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And, behold, God himself <i>is</i> with us for <i>our</i> captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you.  O children of Israel, fight ye not against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
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&#182; But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment <i>was</i> behind them.
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And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle <i>was</i> before and behind: and they cried unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
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Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
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And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
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And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
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Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/13/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Trust in God.">relied</a> upon the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of their fathers.
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And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Beth-el with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.
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Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/13/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 25: 38; Alma 30: 52 (1-60).">struck</a> him, and he died.
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&#182; But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
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And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, <i>are</i> written in the story of the prophet <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/13/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Lost.">Iddo</a>.
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